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No; 623,H0. Patntgd Apr.|l,|899. w B. S. SCOTT.

EAVES THOUGH.

(Application filed Dec. 28, 1898.)

(in Model.)

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NITED STATES PATENT OFF CE,

CHARLES S. SCOTT, OF OASSVILLE, MISSOURI, ASSIGNOB OF ONE-HALF TO B. J,NORBY, OF SAME PLACE.

EAVES-TROUGH.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 623,110, dated April11, 1899. Application filed December 2 8, 1898. Serial No. 700,546. (Nomodel.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, CHARLES S. Soorr, a citizen of the United States,residing at Cassville, in the county of Barry and State of Missouri,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Eaves-Troughs; andI do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear,

and exact description of the invention, such as will enable othersskilled in the art to which it appertaiiis to make and use the same.

My invention, as will be hereinafter fully described and claimed,relates to certain new and useful improvements in eaves-troughs, theobject being to provide meansfor so securing the eavestrough in itsoperative position that it need not be'provided with the usualsustaining or bracing plate or rib, thus making it possible to morecheaply construct said trough, inasmuch as the same may be made ofsuitable sheet metal, rolled or otherwise formed into the desired shape.

It will be seen from the following specification, considered inconnection with the accompanying drawings, that the means which I employto hold the trough in its operative position also reinforces orstrengthens the trough, and thereby obviates the necessity of saidbraces or ribs being attached to it.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is an end View of a portion of agable, showing my improved hanger and the trough carried thereby securedin its operative position. Fig. 2 is a similar view of my hanger on aslightly-enlarged scale.

The several parts of my invention and the trough carried thereby will bedesignated by numerals, in which 1 indicates the trough, which is madesubstantiallyin the usual manner and is provided upon its outer edgewith the reinforcing coil or roll 2, designed to give the requisitestrength and rigidity to the outer edge of the trough and also permit amore perfect grasp to be set up thereon by my improved hanger, while theopposite edge 3 of the material may be simply bent upon itself, asshown, or otherwise disposed.

It will be seen that my improved hanger is formed of one continuouspiece of wire so bent and shaped that means for grasping the trough isprovided and also means for bracing the trough against collapsing andfor securing the hanger in position. Awire of suitable size is selectedand is bent upon itself at a point near one end thereof, thus formingthe loop-section 4, which should be of proper size to receive betweenthe sections of the wire thus shaped a nail, screw, or other securingdevice, as indicated at 5 in Fig. 1. The wires have been preferablytwisted upon themselves, forming the overlapping interwoven sections 6,which part is continued downward, as preferred, when one of the wires iswrapped upon the other, as indicated at 7, and is continued downward,forming the oblique section 8 and the circular or loop section 9, thelatter being designed to receive the coil 2, forming the edge of thetrough. After the loop-section 9 has been provided the wire is continueddownward and upward, thus providing the U-shaped troughsupportingsection 10, while the extreme end 11 of the wire is left free for thepurpose of being wrapped around a screw or nail 12, while the other wireafter passing through the coil 7 is extended obliquely downward, formingthe bracing-section 13, it being u11= derstood that the point ofdivergence of the sections 8 and 13 is preferably immediately over thecenter of the trough. The bracingsection 13 continues downward and isprovided with the circular loop 14:, and from thence continued upwardand bent upon itself to provide the laterally-extendin g loop 15, thewire being then continued downward and passed through the loop 14, andthence extends toward the opposite side of the trough, forming thehorizontal section 16, and engages with or wraps around that portion ofthe other end of the wire between the loop 9 and the oblique section orbrace 8, the extreme end of the wire being wrapped around the other 'atthis point, as indicated by the numeral 17.

While I have described the preferred manner of shaping or bending onecontinuous piece of Wire so as to provide a hanger of reliableefiiciency, it will be seen that any reasonable departure from theprocess just described maybe made without departing from the spirit ofmy invention, since the main purpose in so shaping said wire is toprovide ter it reaches upward to the height of theinner edge of thetrough said wire passes through said loop and is then sharply bentdownward, thus providing the bend 19, which serves to look the troughtightly in the grasp of the hanger.

It will be readily apparent that an eavestrongh may be quickly suspendedandsecured in its operative position, so as to catch the drip from thecaves and convey the same into suitable pipe connections. It is obviousthat the hanger may be readily disengaged from the trough, as byslipping the same off the end thereof.

Believing that the advantages, construction, and use of my improvedhanger Will be fully apparent from the foregoing specification, furtherreference to the details thereof is deemed unnecessary.

Having thus fully described my invention,

what- I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters-Patent, is-

1. The herein-described hanger for eavestroughs consisting of a piece ofWire bent upon itself to form the loop-section 4 and the twistedsect-ion 6, the wires being then separated and one wrapped around theother to form the binding-section 7, the wires being then shaped to formthe bracing-sections 8 and 13, the loop-sections 1 1, and 15, thecircular loop 9, the seat-section 10 and theanchoring-stein 11, wherebya triangular brace-section will be presented against the collapse of thetrough, as specified and for the purpose 5 set forth.

2 .v A trough-hanger formed of a single piece of wire so bent as toprovide'an anchoring"- section and trough-seat and also a triangularbrace. extending entirely across the mouth of the trough, the ends ofsaid brace bearing snugly against the inner surface of the edges of thetrough, as-and for the purpose set forth.

3. In a trough-hanger formed of wire, a triangular brace-section sodisposed that it will extend entirely across the mouth of the trough,the ends of said brace bearing snugly against the inner surface of theedges of the trough, as and for the purpose set forth.

4. A trough-hanger consisting of an an choring-section, a seat-sectionfor the trough, and a triangular brace-section adapted to extendentirely across the mouth of the trough, all the parts being integral,the said brace-section being so disposed that it will prevent thecollapse of the trough, as specified and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES S. SCOTT.

Witnesses:

O. D. MANLEY, L. F. JONES.

